Fearson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.

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• rejecting defendant's argument that the statute of limitations for bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer
• plaintiff’s claim barred by limitations period in part because “claim relate[d] to a single disease,” and was therefore “distinguishable from cases in which the plaintiffs suffer successive, but distinct, injuries, which may give rise to separate causes of action”
• survival action commenced in May of 1980 is not time barred as to lung cancer where decedent was informed he had mild asbestosis in early 1973, was diagnosed as having lung cancer in March of 1979, and died in May of 1979

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